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Offline Rufous Treecreeper

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Re: What on earth is this occupation?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 03 June 24 11:45 BST (UK) »
Queen be in  ;D says this Aussie
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Re: What on earth is this occupation?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 04 June 24 07:34 BST (UK) »
Thank you from across the ditch, Rufous.

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Re: What on earth is this occupation?
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 04 June 24 08:53 BST (UK) »
Just in case you don't have his obituary:

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https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-queanbeyan-leader-ambrose-miller/148677835/

Edited to add his wife (unless there were two Ambrose Millers in Queanbeyan)
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-ambrose-miller/148677882/

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Re: What on earth is this occupation?
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 04 June 24 10:38 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Rufous Treecreeper on Monday 03 June 24 11:45 BST (UK)
Queen be in  ;D says this Aussie

This one says Queen bee an.  :D  Whilst actually in NSW, it's just next to Canberra.

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Re: What on earth is this occupation?
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 04 June 24 22:31 BST (UK) »
Quote from: maddys52 on Tuesday 04 June 24 10:38 BST (UK)
Quote from: Rufous Treecreeper on Monday 03 June 24 11:45 BST (UK)
Queen be in  ;D says this Aussie

This one says Queen bee an.  :D  Whilst actually in NSW, it's just next to Canberra.

So does this Aussie.    :D  ( But I bet either would get you there!) 
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Re: What on earth is this occupation?
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 04 June 24 23:11 BST (UK) »
There is a very well kept train station in Queanbeyan. I was impressed.
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Re: What on earth is this occupation?
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 04 June 24 23:48 BST (UK) »
Spent the coldest night of my life in Queanbeyan, staying with friends on a June long weekend in about 1984. Brrr.   :D

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So does this Aussie.    :D  ( But I bet either would get you there!) 
Thought the different pronunciation might be a Sydney/Melbourne thing, but perhaps not.

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Re: What on earth is this occupation?
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 04 June 24 23:56 BST (UK) »
I tried to find any other references to Ambrose MILLER in Australia. Not many - he's on the electoral roll in Queanbeyan in 1903/4, no occupaton recorded. Also a mention of Mr and Mrs A MILLER at a funeral in 1903:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/31095519

There is an Ambrose MILLER in the Sydney Sands Directory in 1893 at 38 Dick St (Chippendale, near the city - Sydney), not sure if this is the same chap.

His death and funeral were reported in the Queanbeyan Age, but also in a couple of Sydney newspapers.

His wife Mary Ann's death was also briefly mentioned in the Queanbeyan Age:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/265183129

Her probate granted to Katherine Marie DORNBUSCH and Dudley Ward HARCOURT, executors
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246288495

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Re: What on earth is this occupation?
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 06 June 24 20:55 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the info on Ambrose and the musings on the pronunciation of Queanbeyan. 
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